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AlternativeTo makes it easy to quickly find stuff. The lists are organized by likes which floats the best content to the top, and helpful tags warn you of undesirable attributes (such as the product being discontinued or if it includes bundleware).

AlternativeTo excels at showing you options, however it doesn't really tell you why one option is better/worse than another. It lists options by the number of likes it has received, but to directly compare the options is relatively hard to do.

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Reddit has subreddits that function as dedicated forums to post all sorts of links, questions, images, news,... concerning the specific topic of the subreddit. A subreddit that's an alternative to gaming related questions on Slant would be /r/gamingsuggestions , where users can ask other users...

Reddit users are entirely free to up-or downvote posts on subreddits. It may happen that you are on a very popular subreddit and get confronted with some gratuitous downvoters very early on. If that happens, the post containing the question may disappear quickly from the first pages of the subredd...

Google indexes all possible product reviews, blog posts, and comparison on the web. Using Google allows you to find reviews and comparisons for even obscure search queries where searching site-by-site for a product could be very time consuming.

While searching for comparisons, you will almost always get different sites in the search results. While variety is good, it makes comparing products very difficult as each website has their own tests and results don't always line up. Also, when making a direct side-by-side comparison it is har...

Every game described on Gamecupid has a tab where a number of similar games are listed. This can easily amount to several dozens of games, each with their own Gamecupid page. They have a large database.

This website seems to no longer be updated, as it lacks a few recent big releases (Need for Speed, DOOM, Far Cry Primal) and lists 2016 games like No Man's Sky, Orcs Must Die! Unchained or Mirror's Edge Catalyst as 'not released yet'.

On the lists, there are detailed tables that show the specifications of all of the products. If a product has a certain feature, there is a checkmark in that box. If the spec is numerical, they list the specific number there (for example, in the best PDF printers & creators list, each product w...